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esult of an attempt to produce a WYSIWYG version of L A TEX that feels a bit more like Microsoft Word. You are still editing L A TEX code, but it is hidden from you — you see something closer to the final product as you type. This has some advantages in that you do not have to learn so much about L A TEX at the outset, but in my opinion any such advantage is out-weighed by various disadvantages (it produces clunky code, moreover if you want to send the code to a native L A TEX user you need to do some fiddling; it is harder to make changes in overall style/control of the document; it is expensive. . . ) 3 Text-only documents 3.1 Basic file structure The .tex file is (essentially) always of the form \documentclass[options]{article} preamble \begin{document} text of document \end{document} Here the first line marks out the fact that we are dealing with a L A TEX 2ε document, and that we are writing an article. The part options will contain a number of possibilities, e.g. whether we are using A4 paper, want the equation number to appear on the left or right, etc. Next comes the preamble to the file, rather than the article. That is, we next supply any further instructions that will be in force throughout the document such as user defined commands, or requesting the loading of packages. The template I have supplied to you contains a lot of stuff set up here already. Finally, the actually text is enclosed by the \begin{document}. . . \end{document} pair. 3.2 Spaces and special characters The amount of space between words in a .tex document is largely irrelevant and ignored. For instance Nicely typed input and Nicely typed input both produce the same input. What is important is that a blank line indicates the end of the current paragraph. So while the two inputs above both produce 3
Nicely typed input if we typed Nicely typed input instead we would get Nicely typed input Because of their use for commands etc., the following will not print as you would expect \ & % { } ^ _ # $ ~ If you want to use any of the first nine of these symbols in some text or mathematics you must instead enter \backslash \& \% \{ \} \^ \_ \# \$ respectively. 3.3 Breaking L A TEX is programmed to work very hard to find the optimal place to break lines, pages etc., and so you are advised to leave it to get on with this task. However, when preparing the final version of you document, if you are not happy with a particular break, or if L A TEX cannot find a good place to break a line and needs help, then the following commands should be used: \\ \newline \newpage \pagebreak[n] The first two break the current line, and start the next without indentation. The final two break the page, with the first one leaving all text on the page where the break takes place together, the final one trying to spread the text out to fill the space. The n should be replaced with a number 0. . . 4 depending on how much you want the break to take place (4 being the strongest request). If you use long and/or unusual words then L A TEX may not know hoe to hyphenate it, and can be taught by input of the form sjam\-bok, the symbols \- showing where a break is permissible. If the unusual word will be used repeatedly then put \hyphenation{sjam-bok} in the preamble. One place where typesetting conventions dictate that linebreaks should not take place is when a particular numbered Theorem or similar is being referred to. For instance there should not be a break between the 1 and the word Theorem when you type Theorem 1. To prevent this insert ~ between them, i.e. Theorem~1. 4
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